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Yeah, Uncle Nicky, there's some real TALENT in that film. I think it's called " Sally's Strange Vacation"...

The 25-06 is an excellent chambering for deer sized game with 100-120 grain bullets. With lighter bullets weights it is also a great long range varmint/predator rifle as long as you are not real concerned about pelt damage.

Oh Pistol...I LOVE it when you talk dirty...<wink, wink>>...

I wasn't using the .338 because I felt I needed it to kill a caribou. I was using it in case one of those hairy Volkswagons came around AFTER I shot the caribou. Actually I consider a .270 near optimum for caribou...I have killed most of mine ( plus a big Alaska bull moose) with my .280 and 140 grain bullets. My decision to get a big thumper for wilderness hunts came after seeing several brown/grizzly bears. The ol' .280 just doesn't feel quite adequate when one of those bad boys goes ambling past. As far as ear protection goes, the spot&stalk or sit& glass type hunting lends itself well to ear plug use. I even use them around home except when hunting in the thick stuff. I wear a pair around my neck and there is usually lots of time to plug them in before the shot. I'm about half deaf already because of all the shooting I did in my youth when I was too young, dumb, and bulletproof to use ear protection. I don't need to get any worse, if I can avoid it.

I had my Ruger 77 .338 ported...It kicked a LITTLE less, but it also was a LOT louder. One time while working up loads on the bench I took a break and took my earplugs out. Next time I squeezed one off, I forgot to put the plugs back in.. Scared hell out of me.!.For a couple of seconds I thought the rifled had exploded, until I realized what I had done. A friend of mine and I lay side by side on a hill in Alaska one time and each shot a caribou. He was shooting a .270, I was shooting the ported .338.. I had plugs in..He didn't .. I overshot the 'bou the first shot and dropped it with the second. My buddy claims he couldn't hear anything out of his right ear for a week.

That poem by Robert Service always comes to mind on a cold night like tonite. An old Irish Lady who was my neighbor for many years could recite the entire poem word for word. Google it up...You'll REALLY feel cold...hehehehe...

Deliverance... That's my favortite love story....<<grin>>.. " Take down them PANTIES, Boy !!" "Looks like we got us a SOW !!"... Poor Ned Beatty...Every time I saw him after that all I could think of was " Squeal like a PIG !!"...

Geeze, Vizslas, what a question... There are SO many great films since the late 1930s.. If I had to name one right now I would say "The Outlaw Josey Wales" with Clint Eastwood, but I can think of 20 or 30 others that I like nearly as much. I cry every time I watch the scene in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" where the troops present Captain Nathan Brittles with his "retirement watch"....

Hmmmm...Kinda sounds like an M-1...Designed to have that action SLAM shut.. I have never fired a Benelli..My only experience with one was a few years ago hunting pheasants in Iowa, one of my partners had an SBE...It was basically a one shot semi, because it would usually jam after the first shot..He is also not a very good wingshot, so he didn't kill many birds. This guy is a very intelligent man. He retired as the head administrator for a large school district in the Rochester area, and his PENSION is in six figures. However, he knows CRAP about guns.. When he first bought his SBE he mounted a red dot sight on it and took it on a very expensive Osceola gobbler hunt. He shot at and missed a big gobbler because he neglected to SIGHT IN the red dot prior to the hunt. He thought you could just mount it and go hunting. On a western elk hunt, he climbed to the top of the mountain on opening day of elk season , attempted to load his rifle, and the cartridges would not chamber...It turned out that the ammo he had bought for his .300 Win mag rifle at Cabela's in Nebraska was .300 Weatherby Mag, instead of .300 Win mag. Due to this, I hesitate to blame the failure to function on his Benelli...Who knows WHAT he may have done wrong ?

Good deal.. Be sure you shoot a few groups before you started "upgrading" it. It may shoot great just the way it is. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I have a M70 in .280 Rem. It has a sweet trigger too, but I had to send it to a 'smith and have it adjusted to get it that way.

Good luck, all of you lake effect folks.. Down here in Little Appalachia, we're supposed to get a few snowers and bitter cold wind chills.. I brought my brass monkey INDOORS for the night.

False....I'm already revolting enough. The next poster is aware that the NSA is reading these posts and just put an alert out on Bubba.

True, But I took 3 squirrels out of the freezer today to thaw. The next poster is a Western Movie fan.

The expression on the cat's face reminds me of the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz... Put 'em up ..PUT 'EM UUUUP !!!

Beautiful cat, Biz...Congrats !! I assume it was a hound hunt...

true The next poster rolls the toilet paper from the TOP of the roll.

" They called him SUPER SKIER" as he sat around the sundeck, For he swore that he would never take a spill... But when they finally brought him down they had to use 3 toboggans, To carry all the PIECES off the hill..." Good luck, Joe...Hehehehehehe....

True....Bunny rabbits and the incidental grouse. The next poster plans to ice fish this month.

False...Too unco-ordinated ( and old). The next poster prefers shapely, full figured women over skinny twiggy types.

Great group for a pistol. It seems to LIKE whatever ammo you are losing. If you want to play with other ammo, have at it, but I wouldn't expect much improvement over what you are using.. Shoots pretty darn good !

Sounds like a good deal to me... Good luck...

Regarding winter grouse cover....Grouse DO need evergreen roosting cover. Otherwise they would be easy prey for predators such as owls. However they do need food, also, and evergreens don't produce much food for them. Look for areas with evergreen cover such as hemlock, pine or cedar fairly close to foods sources such as rose, wild grapes, sumac or bayberries.. As Early said, it takes them awhile to work from the roosting cover to the feed..Best hunting is mid day through the afternoon.

I spent some time one summer prior to an Alaska hunt working up loads for my .338 Ruger 77 and my buddy's .300 WM M 70 ...As far as I could tell, one beat me up as badly as the other... I have since sold the .338 and replaced it with a 9.3 x 62, which is a little kinder to my shoulder. My buddy is still using his .300 mag as his main rifle for everything from whitetails to moose, and he shoots it very well.. Of course he is a big, dumb, stubborn Irish farmer, and is as recoil proof as a tractor tire.<<grin>>...

You mean what ammo to use ??..

True...It's so cold I just looked outside and saw a MINK wearing a FAT LADY. The next poster uses a folding knife as his/her deer gutting tool.